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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has submitted an open letter to the American people. We have all heard about it, and in case anyone has not read it this is the letter from the dangerous nut job.
President Ahmadinejad’s letter
The 5-page letter, released by Iran’s representative at the United Nations today, President Ahmadinejad writes, “The global position of the United States is in all probability weakened, because the administration has continued to resort to force, to conceal the truth, and to mislead the American people about its policies and practices.”
Gosh that sounds like the Democrat’s talking points doesn’t it. hahaha Oh I am so afraid. NOT. He has a lot of nerve to lecture the citizens of the United States of America.
Terrorists Ahmadinejad can kiss my ass!

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US should open up to Arabs, Muslims: Powell
Dubai, November 30, 2006
Hindustan Times
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday that President George W Bush could fight terrorism better by reaching out to Arabs and Muslims.

“We are conveying a bad message, that America does not welcome you, particularly Arabs and Muslims,” Powell told a business forum in the United Arab Emirates.

“The greatest weapon against terrorism for America is to open up for the rest of the world.”

Arabs and Muslims have criticised US policies as biased towards Israel.
Tensions escalated after US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a backlash against Muslims and Arabs in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The 19 Al-Qaeda hijackers who attacked US cities in 2001 were Arab Muslims, mainly from Saudi Arabia.

“I hope President Bush and Secretary (of State Condoleezza) Rice would double the effort to bring stability to this part of the world (Middle East),” he added.

Powell said the number of Arabs and Muslims who visit the US has dropped since the attacks and reflected negatively on educational institutions and leisure destinations.
Arabs and Muslims complain of heavy security searches in US airports and denial of access to the country. Many Arab students, mainly from Gulf Arab states, left the United States after the attacks due to fear of discrimination.

“This is bad, not good for America,” said Powell.

“When students come to America for a couple of years they will understand Americans more. This is a great weapon against terrorism… not the use of the military.”

Wild Thing’s comment……
OK first I have to tell you I have NEVER been a fan of Colin Powell. He is a true left thinker and that just drives me over the edge. haha I mean it I don’t trust him or like him. Islam does not support America in any way, and it is subversive.
“When students come to America for a couple of years they will understand Americans more.”
Oh let’s see Powell you mean like how to fly airplanes into buildings …
I expect him to be an AMERICAN with AMERICAN interests at heart. Perhaps just a bit too much to expect from this fraud and RINO. People like him are the problem, not the soloution. Disgraceful. He should be ashamed, but apparently he does not have the grace to be ashamed.
Hey Powell, don’t you think we have an open enough country for Muslims? There are mosques in almost every city, aren’t there?
If you want to “open up” more to Muslims, how about inviting Al-Qaeda members to your home, of course, after you’ve eliminated all means of self-defense for you and your family.
Mr. Powell, why aren’t you responding?

Gen. Michael V. Hayden, left, director of the C.I.A., and Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, testifying earlier this month before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq
WASHINGTON
A senior American intelligence official said Monday that the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr.
The official said that 1,000 to 2,000 fighters from the Mahdi Army and other Shiite militias had been trained by Hezbollah in Lebanon. A small number of Hezbollah operatives have also visited Iraq to help with training, the official said.
Iran has facilitated the link between Hezbollah and the Shiite militias in Iraq, the official said. Syrian officials have also cooperated, though there is debate about whether it has the blessing of the senior leaders in Syria.
The intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity under rules set by his agency, and discussed Iran’s role in response to questions from a reporter.
The interview occurred at a time of intense debate over whether the United States should enlist Iran’s help in stabilizing Iraq. The Iraq Study Group, directed by James A. Baker III, a former Republican secretary of state, and Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic lawmaker, is expected to call for direct talks with Tehran.
The claim about Hezbollah’s role in training Shiite militias could strengthen the hand of those in the Bush administration who oppose a major new diplomatic involvement with Iran.
The new American account is consistent with a claim made in Iraq this summer by a mid-level Mahdi commander, who said his militia had sent 300 fighters to Lebanon, ostensibly to fight alongside Hezbollah.

“They are the best-trained fighters in the Mahdi Army,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The specific assertions about Iran’s role went beyond those made publicly by senior American officials, though Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, did tell Congress this month that “the Iranian hand is stoking violence” in Iraq.
The American intelligence on Hezbollah was based on human sources, electronic means and interviews with detainees captured in Iraq.
American officials say the Iranians have also provided direct support to Shiite militias in Iraq, including explosives and trigger devices for roadside bombs, and training for several thousand fighters, mostly in Iran. The training is carried out by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, they say.
In Congressional testimony this month, General Hayden said he was initially skeptical of reports of Iran’s role but changed his mind after reviewing intelligence reports.

“I’ll admit personally,” he said at one point in the hearing, “that I have come late to this conclusion, but I have all the zeal of a convert as to the ill effect that the Iranians are having on the situation in Iraq.”

Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, offered a similar assessment in his testimony.
Neither General Hayden nor General Maples described Hezbollah’s role during the hearing.
In the interview on Monday, the senior intelligence official was asked for further details about the purported Iranian role.

“They have been a link to Lebanese Hezbollah and have helped facilitate Hezbollah training inside of Iraq, but more importantly Jaish al-Mahdi members going to Lebanon,” the official said, describing Iran’s role and using the Arabic name for the Mahdi Army.

The official said the Hezbollah training had been conducted with the knowledge of Mr. Sadr, the most influential Shiite cleric.
While Iran wants a stable Iraq, the official said, it sees an advantage in “managed instability in the near term” to bog down the American military and defeat the Bush administration’s objectives in the region.

“There seems to have been a strategic decision taken sometime over late winter or early spring by Damascus, Tehran, along with their partners in Lebanese Hezbollah, to provide more support to Sadr to increase pressure on the U.S.,” the American intelligence official said.

Some Middle East experts were skeptical about the assessment of Hezbollah’s training role.

“That sound to me a little bit strained,” said Flynt Leverett, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a Middle East expert formerly on the National Security Council staff. “I have a hard time thinking it is a really significant piece of what we are seeing play out on the ground with the various Shiite militia forces.”

But other specialists found the assessment plausible. “I think it is plausible because Hezbollah is the best in the business, and it enhances their position with Iran, Syria and Iraq,” said Judith Kipper, of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Mahdi Army and other militia fighters traveled to Lebanon in groups of 15 and 20 and some were present during the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel this summer, though there was no indication they had taken part in the fighting, the American intelligence official said.
Asked what the militia members had learned, the official replied:

“Weapons, bomb-making, intelligence, assassinations, the gambit of skill sets.”

There is intelligence that indicates that Iran shipped machine tools to Lebanon that could be used to make “shaped charges,” sophisticated explosive devices designed to penetrate armor, American officials have said. But it is not known how the equipment was in fact used.
The officials said that because the Iraqi militia members went through Syrian territory, at least some Syrian officials were complicit. There are also reports of meetings between Imad Mugniyah, a senior Hezbollah member; Ghassem Soleimani of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards; and Syrian representatives to discuss ways of stepping up the pressure on the United States in Iraq.
The mid-level Mahdi commander interviewed this summer said the group sent to Lebanon was called the Ali al-Hadi Brigade, named for one of two imams buried at the Askariya Mosque in Samarra. The bombing of that shrine in February unleashed the fury of Shiite militias and accelerated sectarian violence.
According to the Mahdi commander, the brigade was organized and dispatched by a senior Mahdi officer known as Abu Mujtaba. It went by bus to Syria in July, and was then led across the border into Lebanon, he said. He said the fighters were from Diwaniya and Basra, as well as from the Shiite neighborhoods of Shoala and Sadr City in Baghdad.

“They travel as normal people from Iraq to Syria,” one of the militiamen said. “Once they get to Syria, fighters in Syria take them in.”

Among American officials, concern over the purported Iranian, Syrian or Hezbollah role grew recently when an advanced antitank weapon, an RPG-29, was used against an American M-1 tank in Iraq.

“The first time we saw it was not in Iraq,” Gen. John P. Abizaid, the head of the United States Central Command, told reporters in September. “We saw it in Lebanon. So to me, No. 1, it indicates an Iranian connection.”

American intelligence officials said the source of the weapon was still unclear.
General Abizaid also said it was hard to pin down some details of relationships between armed factions in the Middle East, adding:

“There are clearly links between Hezbollah training people in Iran to operate in Lebanon and also training people in Iran that are Shia splinter groups that could operate against us in Iraq These linkages exist, but it is very, very hard to pin down with precision.”

Wild Thing’s comment…….
I really DIDN”T need another reason to whack Sadr, but maybe the US government does.
Our leaders have either not read Carl von Clausewitz or they have forgotten what he wrote in his treatise ON WAR.
Book 1
ON THE NATURE OF WAR
3. Utmost use of force.

Now, philanthropists may easily imagine there is a skillful method of disarming and overcoming an enemy without causing great bloodshed, and that this is the proper tendency of the art of War. However plausible this may appear, still it is an error which must be extirpated; for in such dangerous things as war, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are just the worst. As the use of physical power to the utmost extent by no means excludes the co-operation of the intelligence, it follows that he who uses force unsparingly, without reference to the quantity of bloodshed, must obtain a superiority if his adversary does not act likewise. By such means the former dictates the law to the latter, and both proceed to extremities, to which the only limitations are those imposed by the amount of counteracting force on each side.

This is the way in which the matter must be viewed; and it is to no purpose, and even acting against one’s own interest, to turn away from the consideration of the real nature of the affair, because the coarseness of its elements excites repugnance.

We can’t afford to blink…neither in the Middle East or in North Korea. If nuclear weapons are unacceptable in Iran and NK and our government makes a statement to that effect then I expect our elected officials to be on the same page as we the people regarding the term “unacceptable”. I am not convinced that is the fact.
The short version?
We need to cut to the chase. No don’t go in and kill the bad guys and leave.
Exterminate every last damned one of them and leave a blackened poisoned landscape then tell the rest of those flea bitten camel jocks that if you so much as Whimper something in protest, we’ll do precisely the same thing to you. I’m just fed up seeing us trying to fight against these people with one hand tied behind our backs because our “Leaders” (and I use that term loosely), are too freakin worried about offending the sensibilities of those maggots in the world who want to kill us.
No Nation will survive that does not deal with it’s enemies quickly and decisively.
I have never been in the military, so my comments on this are just from a girl that comes from a heavy military background, that loves America and respects our military.

Nusrat al-Rubaie, loyalist to Muqtada al-Sadr delivers a message following the meeting in Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006. Lawmakers and Cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have suspended participation in parliament and the government to protest Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s summit with U.S. President George W. Bush. Poster in the background shows Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, Muqtada’s late father. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Baghdad,Iraq
Lawmakers and cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have suspended participation in parliament and the government to protest Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s summit with U.S. President George W. Bush.
A statement issued Wednesday by the 30 lawmakers and five Cabinet ministers said their action was necessary because the meeting constituted a “provocation to the feelings of the Iraqi people and a violation of their constitutional rights.” The statement did not explain that claim.
Suspected insurgents attacked the police headquarters in downtown Baqouba, sparking a clash with police that left five of the attackers dead, police said on condition of anonymity, as they regularly do to protect themselves.
Coalition forces backed by U.S. aircraft also killed eight al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents during a raid near the city the U.S. military said.
The early morning attack was aimed at detaining Iraqis who were running a known cell of insurgents, the U.S. command said. The soldiers called in air support after coming under heavy fire from rifles and machine guns, the command said.

Bush Seeks to Ease Visa Requirement
Washington Times
TALLINN, Estonia — President Bush said yesterday he will push Congress for a “loosening” of requirements for foreigners to visit the United States without a visa, pitting him against those who have called for the program instead to be tightened or even scrapped altogether after September 11.
The Visa Waiver Program allows visitors with valid passports from 27 approved countries to enter the United States for up to 90 days without a visa. That makes tourism and business travel easier by eliminating the need for a visa, though such travelers can avoid a security screening.
After meeting with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves in Tallinn, Mr. Bush said he will press Congress to revamp the program to allow more countries to join.

“I’m going to work with our Congress and our international partners to modify our Visa Waiver Program,” Mr. Bush said. “It’s a way to make sure that nations like Estonia qualify more quickly for the program and, at the same time, strengthen the program’s security components.”

But the proposed expansion would run athwart concerns that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cannot keep up with the 27 countries already approved, as the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’ investigative branch, found in a July report.
“DHS cannot effectively monitor the law enforcement and security risks posed by visa waiver countries on a consistent, ongoing basis because it has not provided [the Office of International Enforcement] with adequate staffing and resources,” GAO investigators concluded, adding they also found “weaknesses” in how DHS talks with overseas posts working on visa issues.
European Union officials have complained that while U.S. nationals can visit any of the 25 EU member states without a visa, only 15 of these countries receive reciprocal privileges from the United States. Mr. Bush discussed the problem with EU officials at a July summit in Vienna, Austria.
Exclusion from the waiver program is a point of contention in former communist bloc countries such as Estonia, Poland and Hungary that have become staunch U.S. allies in the war on terrorism.
Mr. Bush said the economic and political progress those nations have made earns them the privilege of participating in the program.

“Both the [Estonian] president and the prime minister made this a important part of our discussions,” he said. “They made it clear to me that if we’re an ally in NATO, people ought to be able to come to our country in a much easier fashion.”

Mr. Bush said he wanted to “assure members of Congress that in loosening the visa-waiver issue, or changing the visa-waiver issue, that we’ll still be able to protect our country from people who would exploit the Visa Waiver Program to come to our country to do harm.”

Wild Thing’s comment……
This is very disturbing. Unless I’m missing something? I mean really am I missing something here???? I don’t understand how anyone could go through 9-11 and not recognize the need for tighter borders…stricter control of those entering the country.
Whew wow…..well this is one of those things that make you sit back and say “WTF??”

Sharia law is spreading as authority wanes
By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Last Updated: 2:03am GMT 29/11/2006
Telegraph UK.co
Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims.
Sharia, derived from several sources including the Koran, is applied to varying degrees in predominantly Muslim countries but it has no binding status in Britain.
However, the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by some Muslims as an alternative to English criminal law. Aydarus Yusuf, 29, a youth worker from Somalia, recalled a stabbing case that was decided by an unofficial Somali “court” sitting in Woolwich, south-east London.
Mr Yusuf said a group of Somali youths were arrested on suspicion of stabbing another Somali teenager. The victim’s family told the police it would be settled out of court and the suspects were released on bail.
A hearing was convened and elders ordered the assailants to compensate their victim. “All their uncles and their fathers were there,” said Mr Yusuf. “So they all put something towards that and apologised for the wrongdoing.”
Mr Yusuf told the programme he felt more bound by the traditional law of his birth than by the laws of his adopted country. “Us Somalis, wherever we are in the world, we have our own law,” he said
In his book Islam in Britain, Patrick Sookhdeo, director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, says there is an “alternative parallel unofficial legal system” that operates in the Muslim community on a voluntary basis.

“Sharia courts now operate in most larger cities, with different sectarian and ethnic groups operating their own courts that cater to their specific needs according to their traditions,” he says. These are based on sharia councils, set up in Britain to help Muslims solve family and personal problems.

Sharia councils may grant divorces under religious law to a woman whose husband refuses to complete a civil divorce by declaring his marriage over. There is evidence that these councils are evolving into courts of arbitration.
Faizul Aqtab Siddiqi, a barrister and principal of Hijaz College Islamic University, near Nuneaton, Warwicks, said this type of court had advantages for Muslims.

“It operates on a low budget, it operates on very small timescales and the process and the laws of evidence are far more lenient and it’s less awesome an environment than the English courts,” he said.

Mr Siddiqi predicted that there would be a formal network of Muslim courts within a decade.

“I was speaking to a police officer who said we no longer have the bobby on the beat who will give somebody a slap on the wrist.

Wild Thing’s comment……
I look at this kind of thing happening and it makes me even more concerned about our country. All they have to do is stand up to this garbage and say no. But they keep sipping the PC koolaid and repeat endlessly “our strength is our diversity” over and over. Liberals’ PC-ness will get us all killed.
I would think that those who voluntarily submit themselves to this sharia court will exert pressure on their infidel associates to submit to it.

Pelosi ‘sad’ over Bush’s Iraq representation
WASHINGTON —
House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Tuesday she feels “sad” President Bush blamed insurgent violence on al Qaeda while he dismissed notions Iraq is in a civil war.
“My thoughts on the president’s representations are well-known,” Pelosi told reporters while meeting with Deputy Italian Minister Francesco Rutelli. “The 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again.”

Wild Thing’s comment….
OMG good grief, how stupid can one person be. She is “sad”????
How about if we send Speaker-elect Pelosi on a nice Congressional junket to Al Anbar province, with no security, just by herself and see how she likes hanging out with the Al Qaeda that she is so sympathetic toward.
Or perhaps Nancy and al-Queda simply share the same sad understanding:
‘Iraq al-Qaeda’ welcomes defeat of Republicans in the US mid-term polls – BBC, November 10 2006
Al Qaeda gloats over U.S. election Washington Times, November 6 2006

Bush Says U.S. Won’t Withdraw From Iraq
President Bush Says He Won’t Pull U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Before Country Is Stabilized
ABC News International
RIGA, Latvia Nov 28, 2006 (AP)— President Bush, under pressure to change direction in Iraq, said Tuesday he will not be persuaded by any calls to withdraw American troops before the country is stabilized.

“There’s one thing I’m not going to do, I’m not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete,” he said in a speech setting the stage for high-stakes meetings with the Iraqi prime minister later this week. “We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our grandchildren.”

A bipartisan panel on Iraq is finalizing recommendations on Iraq. The group led by former Secretary of State James Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., plan to present ideas to Bush next month.
The commissioners are expected to debate the feasibility of withdrawal timetables.
Recent U.S. elections added fuel to the argument from Democrats that U.S. soldiers need to come home. In Washington, incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that Bush must work with Democrats on stopping the violence in Iraq.

“We want to work in a bipartisan way to settle this,” Pelosi said. “If the president persists on the course that he is on, that will be more difficult.”

Bush has resisted troop withdrawals even while projecting the need for a different approach.

“We’ll continue to be flexible and we’ll make the changes necessary to succeed,” the president said.

Bush pushed back against skeptics of his goal of spreading freedom across the Middle East. “I understand these doubts but I do not share them,” the president said.
Bush has two days of meetings with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki later in the week.
Earlier Tuesday, Bush blamed the escalating bloodshed in Iraq on an al-Qaida plot to stoke cycles of sectarian revenge, and refused to debate whether the country has fallen into civil war.
Bush said he will ask al-Maliki to explain his plan for quelling the violence.

“The Maliki government is going to have to deal with that violence and we want to help them do so,” the president said. “It’s in our interest that we succeed.”

Directly seeking help from Iran and Syria with Iraq, as part of new, aggressive diplomacy throughout the region, is expected to be among the recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton group.
But Bush repeated his administration’s reluctance to talk with two nations it regards as pariah states working to destabilize the Middle East.
Far from reaching out to Iran and Syria, Bush also denounced them for trying to destabilize the fragile, Western-backed government in Lebanon.

“That government is being undermined, in my opinion, by extremist forces encouraged out of Syria and Iran,” Bush said. “Why? Because a democracy will be a major defeat for those who articulate extremist points of view.”

Meanwhile, a U.S. intelligence official said the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon is believed to be training small groups of Iraqis affiliated with anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. As many as 2,000 fighters from Sadr’s Mahdi army or his splinter militia may have been trained since the fall of Saddam Hussein. In addition, Hezbollah fighters have gone to Iraq to train Shiite fighters there.
Complete article is HERE.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Yesterday’s post “What Happened To Let’s WIN“…. had great comments. And I wanted to I thank you all for them so much, they were wonderful and right on target.

No One Is Focusing on Winning in Iraq;
It’s “Get Out, and Turn It Over to Our Enemies”
by Rush Limbaugh
RUSH: They continue to leak data from the upcoming Baker Report (it’s being called): the Iraq Study Group. It’s fascinating what’s happening on this. Nobody any longer is talking about winning. Everybody is now talking about how to “get out.” These leaks obviously are having their intended purpose. The intended purpose is to set the stage for when the real report comes out. The real report is probably going to exactly or equal what the leaks have been, and that is, we gotta get out of there, and we gotta let Syria and Iran go ahead and assume control over this and get their assistance with all this. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is, once again now, saying that the United States, Israel, and the UK are doomed, that it’s only a matter of time. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela says he’s going to take us down. Nobody seems to notice or care.
It’s amazing.
I left here on Tuesday, get back now, and not much has changed. The tenor of the news is still pretty much the same. I’ve got the requisite number of stories on what the Democrats are and aren’t going to do, and how they’re going to be liberal and not liberal, and how they’re going to investigate and how they’re not going to investigate. The pope is in Turkey. We have bombing threats, bomb attacks on Wal-Mart now, and there’s probably an explanation for this, but everybody is all hepped up now about the situation in Iraq with the Baker report. Here’s a little blurb on it from the Associated Press:
“The Bush administration is stepping up diplomatic efforts to stabilize Iraq, even as key congressional figures say their confidence in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government is waning.” You know, I would love if the Baker report said: “Just put Saddam Hussein back in charge.” I know there’s a columnist in the LA Times, a guy who wrote the “Why I Hate Bush” column named Jonathan Chait. Do it, he says. Do it now. Yeah, he mass murders people, but the guy kept order. The guy knew how to keep order. Maybe that’s the thing we should do. (Laughing.) It’s getting so absurd that I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody besides a columnist makes that suggestion. “The New York Times reported today that a draft report by the Iraq study group led by James Baker recommends aggressive regional diplomacy, including talks with Iran and Syria.”
This is no different than what has been leaked on prior occasions. “Anonymous officials who have seen the draft report…” I wonder who they are. Could they be members of the commission, I wonder? By the way, Vernon Jordan is on the commission (I wonder what he thinks we ought to do about Iraq) and Sandra Day O’Connor, great Supreme Court justice, she’s on the commission. I wonder what she thinks we ought to do about Iraq. Why are these people any better than anybody else on this commission? Ed Meese is on the commission. He makes a lot of sense, a lot of times, but Vernon Jordan is a rainmaker. Sandra Day O’Connor was a justice who doesn’t think the judiciary should be criticized. The best and the brightest in these “blue ribbon” commissions, they get appointed — and I’m looking at all this, and nowhere is anybody suggesting that we win it.
Nobody is! We could do the Limbaugh Plan. The Limbaugh Plan is win in Iraq and get out. The Limbaugh Plan would consist of many things which many say are impossible. Stop the politics. Have both parties line up for US victory. Of course, it’s a pipe dream because the fact of the matter is, as I said. Have you heard all the calls over the weekend, “We’ve gotta send troops into Darfur!” That started before we left on Tuesday and that’s there now. What the case is as I mentioned brilliantly to a caller last week, the left in this country will send our military anywhere where we do not have our own national interests at stake. They’ll send ’em on Meals on Wheels programs. They’ll send them to stop a bloody civil war in Africa.
They’ll do it to feed people or what have you, but where our interests are at stake, no way! They’re not going to send our troops and our military anywhere where our interests are at stake, because it’s not fair, and they don’t like the military being used. All of this is a setup. This whole policy on Iraq is a setup now to see to it that we don’t have the guts or courage to deploy forces anywhere around the world the next time we need to defend ourselves. That’s the danger that lurks behind all of this. With the kind of political leaders we’re breeding, who’s going to have the guts to do it if it’s necessary to do anyway, given what no doubt will happen to him as has happened to George W. Bush?
Oh, by the way, “anonymous officials who have seen the report say it does not specify any timetables for the withdrawal of US troops in Iraq although the commissioners are expected to debate the feasibility of such timetables. Appearing Monday on Good Morning America, Jimmy…” I think we’ve got the audio of this at some point. I’m not sure I want to listen to it. Carter thinks that Bush “will take their advice as much as he possibly can. Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, potential presidential contender,” Ha-ha! Don’t make me laugh, “in 2008 said, ‘It’s not too late for the United States to extricate itself honorably from an impending disaster in Iraq, and as for Bush some of the harshest criticism is coming from his own party, we have misunderstood we have misread we have mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam,’ said Hagel.”
Honorable intentions are not policies and plans. “Senator Dick Durban of Illinois, now the number two Senate Democrat called Iraq ‘the worst US foreign policy decision since Vietnam.’ He said Democrats do not have a quick answer, and any solution might be bipartisan.” They don’t have an answer? They don’t? All of a sudden now they don’t have an answer! Well, they did have an answer prior to the election! That was cut-and-run, redeploy, whatever. You know, redeploy is another one of these twisting and turning of words that just means quit, but it softens the message of cut-and-run or quit and leave. We’ll “redeploy.” We’ll put our troops somewhere where there’s really no need for them to be under the pretense if something really bad happens we can mobilize them quickly and get ’em back in there.
Let me try to explain it. The Iraq war, to the vast majority of people in this country, is no more than a 20-second or 30-second television show every night on the Nightly News — and they’re uncomfortable. They’re fed up. They don’t want to watch it anymore. “Just end it. Figure it out! Just end it, because I don’t want to see it anymore.” To them it’s not about the country being threatened. It is not about a worldwide conflict in which we find ourselves. It’s just something inconvenient. The American people don’t want to be inconvenienced; they don’t want to see that stuff. We got a story out there now: We’ve been in Iraq longer than we were in World War II. So what? When did World War II become the official timeline of wars? It doesn’t matter. The objective doesn’t matter. “However long it takes to win this,” that’s no longer the objective. Get out, because the American people don’t want to see it anymore. They’re going to continue to watch the news, and they don’t want to see this. It’s no more complicated than that.
CALLER: I was calling because, to be honest, I’m actually starting to get afraid of what’s going to happen with the new direction we’re going in, pulling out and speaking to the terrorist countries? It honestly makes me afraid.
RUSH: Be very afraid, sir.
CALLER: You know, I know people that died in the World Trade, and I really don’t — you know, I love my country, and I love all my fellow Americans, and for another tragic thing like that to happen again, I feel it’s coming in the direction that we’re going.
RUSH: Yeah. I think you’re right. I think it’s going to take at least one or more of those kind of events to get people revved up. They’ve forgotten about it because they want to forget about it and because you live in America you can forget about it because there are enough diversions, there’s tranquility and there’s peace for the most part. Everybody has their problems, but there’s economic opportunity, economic performance. Why do we want to jeopardize all that with a war on terror when there hasn’t been another attack here? Plus with the political divisions on this, the whole subject has become a sort of a negative for people. They don’t even want to hear about it, much less support it.
RUSH: We went in there on the basis of intelligence reports there were weapons of mass destruction plus Saddam. Let’s not refight that. Yeah, that’s why we went.
RUSH: Well, look, the president built this stuff up for a year and a half, two years talking about this in speech after speech after speech, and he did often reference the horrors committed against the population of Iraq by Saddam Hussein. He talked about the rape rooms and the torture rooms and so forth, and the mass murders. You can’t rewind life like a TiVo, but I look back on it. If we’d have just gone in there after the Gulf War, we had 500,000 troops over there. Do you people remember this? We had 500,000 troops just to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait, and it took, what, three days? Then the highway to hell, the road to Baghdad was paved with so much death and mayhem and the pictures on the nightly newscasts were upsetting and so we stopped. If we’d gotten rid of Saddam back then, but you can’t play the IFgame. I know where you’re going with this.
You heard me say earlier today nobody is talking about winning, and you want to know what winning it is. At this stage of the game, I’m going to be accused of playing 20/20 hindsight, but it’s not too late to change this. Our objective right now is establishing and building a government and a democracy. That’s all fine and dandy, and it’s all well and good.
But to me, the focus needs to be on achieving a military victory whatever it takes. If that means wiping out these leaders of the resistance and the insurgents, the terrorists wherever they are… The other day there was a story about some guy in Iraq who was disguised as a woman nursing a baby who was launching attacks against our troops. Wipe ’em out. This is war. If you have to blow up some buildings, blow ’em up. If you have to level some infrastructure, do it. Of course, we’ve really built the country up in a marvelous way, and nobody is reporting that very much. Anyway, that’s military victory as it’s always been defined.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
I know it is long, but it is well worth the read.Yes I like Rush and listen to him as often as I can. I also think for myself and don’t just follow lock step with what he says on every single topic. But when he is right on target he can be awesome. This transcript from Nov. 27th, 2006 is excellent and I wanted to share it with you.
Our troops are wiinning and the left can’t stand it. They never can when they see positive things happening. But our troops also need to know they can fight this war in a military way and not in a PC way. Not with having to get permission for every shot fired, every building taken out. This is wrong in more then words can say. I beleive in supporting our military NOT in weakening it, attacking it and making it folllow some kind of mish mosh PC agenda bent on disabeling it at every turn.